Santa Cruz Sentinel Profiles Ronald Kaplan in “People In Business”

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Santa Cruz Sentinel

Allstate agent Ron Kaplan’s Volunteer efforts for the American Songbook Preservation Society has been rewarded with a $500 grant to the organization. The funding comes from the Allstate Foundation’s Agency Hands in the community program, which began in 2003. Kaplan, of Aptos, is the founder and executive director for the American Songbook Preservation Society, which performs classic musical works from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. The grant will underwrite the presentation of free and low-cost concerts in the community and throughout the country.

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In a hundred to a hundred fifty years from now, I believe that people will recognize the music of Gershwin and Ellington as the Classical Music of our time.

Tony BennettSinger of Popular Music, Standards, Show Tunes, and Jazz

There is a grassroots group you may know of, led by vocalist and producer Ron Kaplan. It’s called the American Songbook Preservation Society…Very admirable; no one (save perhaps Michael Feinstein) could be more eager than I to see the brilliant work of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser and their ilk, protected and performed ad infinitum.

Christopher LoudenJazzTimes Vocal Columnist

We are working for the same thing…to continue the legacy of this great body of work for future generations to come to know and enjoy.